Seeds and the City: The Interdependence of Zoochory and Ecosystem Dynamics in Urban Environments [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The increasing urban sprawl has contributed to the extensive fragmentation and reduction of natural habitat worldwide. Urbanization has a range of adverse effects on ecosystem functioning, including the disruption of plant dispersal processes across the ...
Tiziana A. Gelmi-Candusso +2 more
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Plant dispersal syndromes are unreliable, especially for predicting zoochory and long‐distance dispersal [PDF]
Oikos, 2021 Plant dispersal syndromes are allocated based on diaspore morphology and used to predict the dominant mechanisms of dispersal. Many authors assume that only angiosperms with endozoochory, epizoochory or anemochory syndromes have a long‐distance dispersal (LDD) mechanism.
Andy J. Green +2 more
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Pollination and dispersal systems in a Cerrado remnant (Brazilian Savanna) in Southeastern Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2011 The aim of this work was to identify the pollination and dispersal systems among the species in a disjunct marginal cerrado area and to compare the frequency of these systems to those found in other Neotropical vegetation.
Katia Losano Ishara +1 more
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Variation in plant-animal interactions along an elevational gradient of moist forest in a semiarid area of Brazil [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2016 Pollination and dispersal are critical ecological processes that directly affect the reproductive success of plants and are important for understanding the structure of plant communities.
Ivan Jeferson Sampaio Diogo +3 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2018 A comprehensive census of a hectare of cerrado s.s. in southeastern Brazil, a small-tree and scrub woodland physiognomy, allowed the evaluation of whether pollination and dispersal modes are correlated with the stratification of the vegetation and if so,
Gerhard Gottsberger +1 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Seed dispersal is an essential process contributing to the maintenance of plant populations. Zoochory is a widespread way of plant dispersal in every terrestrial ecosystem that can ensure the long-distance dispersal of seeds.
Laura Godó +4 more
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Padrões das síndromes de dispersão de plantas em áreas com diferentes graus de pluviosidade, PE, Brasil Patterns of dispersal syndromes of plants in areas with different total rainfall, Pernambuco State, Brazil [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2009 Este trabalho objetivou descrever as proporções de síndromes de dispersão em três remanescentes de vegetação nativa com distintos totais pluviométricos e número de meses secos.
Maria Carolina Nunes Alves da Silva +1 more
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Zoochorous dispersal of freshwater bivalves: an overlooked vector in biological invasions? [PDF]
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2017 Vectors that underpin the natural dispersal of invasive alien species are frequently unknown. In particular, the passive dispersal (zoochory) of one organism (or propagule) by another, usually more mobile animal, remains poorly understood.
Coughlan Neil E. +4 more
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Síndromes de dispersão de sementes em três trechos de vegetação ciliar (nascente, meio e foz) ao longo do rio Pindaíba, MT Seed dispersal syndromes in three riparian vegetation sites (source, middle and estuary) along the Pindaíba river, Mato Grosso state, Brazil [PDF]
Revista Árvore, 2009 Este estudo foi desenvolvido visando identificar as proporções entre as síndromes de dispersão e os tipos de frutos encontrados em três áreas: nascente (Cerrado Rupestre), meio e foz (mata ciliar Floresta Estacional Semidecidual) ao longo do Rio Pindaíba,
Daniel Stefanello +2 more
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On ability of perch to colonize new waterbodies-indirect evidence and sticky facts. A Comment on: 'Multiple lines and levels of evidence for avian zoochory promoting fish colonization of artificial lakes' (2023), by Garcia et al. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2023 Vasemägi A +4 more
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